Slava Gerulak

Slava Gerulak (born May 5, 1933) is a Ukrainian-American ceramic artist known for her sculpture based in New York.

[1][2] In the mid-1950's she was part of the New York Group [Нью-Йоркська Група; Niu-Iorkska hrupa], a group of poets and artists, which developed spontaneously from friendships and discussions around the Students’ke slovo (Student Word) supplement to the Ukrainian American newspaper Svoboda.

She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a BA from Sienna Heights College (1954) and an MA from Northwestern University (1959).

Her work is found in many public and private collections nationally and internationally.

She was most often inspired by her heritage and it's folklore adapting images of mermaids, nymphs, protectresses, a mother and child, villagers in folk costumes, and girls with head adornments/floral wreaths to create her own style of figurative ceramics which explores Ukrainian life.